Category Archives: Metaphysics

[Updated Dec. 28, 2017, with a revised and expanded discussion of arguments from Sean Carroll's book The Big Picture. - SC] There are many reasons why I’m not retired, but one of the bigger ones is that I haven’t figured … Continue reading →

In the first installment of this series, we immersed ourselves in the quantum realm that lies beneath our everyday experience and discovered a universe that bears little resemblance to it. Instead of the solid, unambiguously well-behaved objects we’re familiar with, … Continue reading →

In previous posts Aron introduced us to the strange, yet compelling world of quantum mechanics and its radical departures from our everyday experience. We saw that the classical world we grew up with, where matter is composed of solid particles … Continue reading →

A while back, a reader of my blog asked me to respond to the following video in which Sean Carroll discusses why he doesn't believe in the afterlife: Sean Carroll On Death And The Afterlife [Please note that, as a … Continue reading →

So g and I were discussing the nature of Consciousness in another thread, and he said something here that I've been meaning to reply to for a while. We were discussing Chalmers' arguments (described in this paper and elsewhere) that … Continue reading →